Maps

1,025 maps found.

1903-1904, Potterton Ref. RNC810168
1925, Sandford Ref. POP824969
1925, Seacroft Ref. POP827030
1925, Stourton Ref. POP841031
1903-1904, Sandford Ref. RNC824969
1903-1904, Manston Ref. RNC774103
1896, Rothwell Ref. RNE820424
1898, Seacroft Ref. RNE827030
1898, Shadwell Ref. RNE828670
1896, Stourton Ref. RNE841031
1898, Manston Ref. RNE774103
1898, Moortown Ref. RNE783572
1903-1904, Burley Ref. RNC655790
1903-1904, Cambridge Ref. RNC660145
1903, Micklefield Ref. RNC778666
1947, Seacroft Ref. NPO827030
1947, Stourton Ref. NPO841031
1898, Henshaw Ref. RNE731493
1925, Monkswood Ref. POP782685
1925, Oakwood Ref. POP795691

Books

2 books found. Showing results 25 to 2.

Memories

179 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Great Story But A Few Corrections

The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge

Ulleskelf

Hiya Luke and Liam if your reading this then your probably on the phone to me .coming up at the weekend hope 2 see you then i probably will. ask nana if i can stay there if not ill sleep round hal's. 2005/2006 where the best years of my ...Read more

A memory of Ulleskelf in 2006 by Patrick Dean

Startime Records

I used to spend many an hour in Startime with headphones on listening to what was new. In 69 I went there on my dinnertime from Gilbey's to buy the new Stones album Let It Bleed. There was a queue right round the Market Square doing ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by Les Stoughton

Family

I have no memory of Coaley, however my family name Deighton crops up with John Edward Deighton. Just wondering if Deighton is a common name in the Coaley area. John Edward died in the early 1950s.He had several sons and a daughter, including My ...Read more

A memory of Coaley by Edward Deighton

Caddys

My grandma lived in Batley Carr and we lived in Leeds. I can remember visiting Dewsbury as a little girl with Mum and Dad. There was a market in Dewsbury on a Saturday and I can remember visiting an ice cream parlour. I was delighted to ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury

Childhood Wwebsters Village Shop

I was born in 1951. My parents owned the W Websters store in Barmoor Lane. I believe the old premises is now known as Orchard Cottage. I remember the sandshoes for sale dangling from the rafters and the butter was ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1957

A Happy Childhood

I lived in Jubilee Cottages in Nethercote with mum and dad. My dad, Charlie Wilson, collected milk from the farms in the area, his lorry being based at Swepstone Dairy. Mum, Florence, worked in the dairy making Stilton ...Read more

A memory of Newton Burgoland in 1955 by Christine Mattinson Ne Wilson

Living On Pool Bank New Road

We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport. We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a ...Read more

A memory of Pool in 1945 by Ian Scott

My Father

My father worked for BP Llandarcy from the 1960s. I was born in 1971 and some of my earliest memories are the smell of my dad coming home from Llandarcy. He worked on a machine called the catreformer. He rescued my first cat Sooty from ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1974

Bramley In The Years 1935 To 1941

Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1930 by Lynden Flint

Captions

237 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Headingley, The Cricket Ground Pavilion 1897

This was to become the home of the Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company. The very first cricket match played here in 1890 was between Leeds and Scarborough.

Caption For Headingley, The Cricket Ground Pavilion 1897

This was to become the home of the Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company. The very first cricket match played here in 1890 was between Leeds and Scarborough.

Caption For Leeds, Parish Church 1891

There are no medieval churches in central Leeds, though several date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Caption For Leeds Castle, 1892

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

Caption For Leeds, City Square C1965

On the right is the entrance to Leeds City station. At one time there were three railway stations in the city centre: Central, Wellington and New.

Caption For Headingley, College 1894

In the latter part of the 19th century, several colleges run by various religious denominations opened around Leeds. The Leeds Clergy school and the Roman Catholic Seminary were both opened in 1876.

Caption For Leeds, The Parkinson Building C1960

This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951. Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Caption For Manchester, Owens College, Oxford Road 1895

As early as 1877 the Senate applied to the Privy Council for the college to be raised to a university, but the application was contested by similar institutions in Liverpool and Leeds.

Caption For Headingley, Otley Road C1955

Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people.

Caption For Headingley, Otley Road C1955

Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people.

Caption For Leeds, Cookridge Street C1955

A view of Leeds Mechanics's Institute.This imposing Italianate building, with its lofty round-arched windows, was built by Cuthbert Brodrick in the late 1860s. It later became the Civic Theatre.

Caption For Horsforth, Woodside Church 1901

Among the more colourful sects to establish themselves in Leeds were the Swedenborgians and the Inghamites.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

Caption For Headingley, 1894

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

Caption For Leeds, The Parkinson Building C1960

This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951. Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Caption For Headingley, College 1894

In the latter part of the 19th century, several colleges run by various religious denominations opened around Leeds. The Leeds Clergy school and the Roman Catholic Seminary were both opened in 1876.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber.

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow And Town Hall C1955

The magnificent many-pillared clock tower of Leeds Town Hall, opened by Queen Victoria in 1858, dominates this view of The Headrow, one of the city's most important thoroughfares.

Caption For Headingley, 1894

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber.

Caption For Horsforth, Woodside Church 1901

Among the more colourful sects to establish themselves in Leeds were the Swedenborgians and the Inghamites.

Caption For Leeds, The Grammar School 1888

The earliest mention of the provision of education in Leeds dates from 1552 when William Sheafield, chantry priest of St Catherine, left property to support the upkeep of a schoolmaster.

Caption For Leeds, New Briggate C1955

At the beginning of the 20th century Leeds had four theatres, including the Grand, which is featured on the right-hand side of the picture.

Caption For Leeds, New Briggate C1955

At the beginning of the 20th century Leeds had four theatres, including the Grand, which is featured on the right-hand side of the picture.